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U.S. President Donald J. Trump advised the new Canadian Prime Minister, Mark Carney, to “never say never” about his nation becoming the 51st state of the United States in a closely watched encounter at the White House.

Police in the Netherlands are investigating the killing of a Turkish mafia boss who reportedly had images implicating politicians of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s party AKP with financial wrongdoing.

President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that the United States will stop airstrikes against Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen after the group agreed to cease attacks on vital shipping lanes in the Middle East. The announcement did not address ongoing Houthi strikes against Israel, a point that Israeli officials said caught them by surprise.

India says it has attacked sites in Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir, killing several people.

President Donald Trump confirmed Sunday that he offered to send U.S. troops into Mexico to help combat the country’s deadly drug cartels — but said Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum turned him down because she is “afraid of the cartels.”

According to a new lawsuit, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is unlawfully gathering data on every citizen who invests in the stock market.

President Joe Biden signed into law an expansion of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) following its approval by Congress in a bipartisan 60-34 vote late Friday night. This extension concludes a rigorous six-month debate over the intelligence law, which critics argue was misused by federal authorities against U.S. citizens. Although the intelligence community secured enhanced surveillance capabilities, opposition efforts succeeded in limiting the duration of these powers to two years. 

With Ukraine increasingly fearing it could lose the war, the U.S. House of Representatives approved $95 billion in foreign aid for Ukraine, Israel, and other U.S. allies in a move immediately welcomed by Kyiv.

U.S. officials said Friday that the installation of a light pole was to blame for a mass outage across at least four states this week that disrupted the 911 emergency telephone service for hours.

American colleges and universities are failing to fight antisemitism on campus, according to a new report published by the Anti-Defamation League.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken harshly criticized Hamas’s response to Israel’s hostage deal proposal, stating that it included impractical changes and suggesting that if Hamas maintains its current stance, it will be responsible for prolonging the war.

Soon after Israel announced preparations for an anticipated “broader military conflict” with Hezbollah, the Iran-backed Islamic terrorist group launched 160 missiles – its largest single barrage to date – at northern Israel towns on Wednesday morning, Ynet News reports. The particularly large barrage of missiles was launched on the first day of Shavuot (Feast of Weeks), a Biblical holiday celebrated in Israel.

Israel has introduced a new air-launched ballistic missile designed to overcome advanced air defenses and deliver precise strikes announced by the Israel Aerospace Industries.

While still fighting a full-scale war against Hamas in Gaza, Israel’s Defense Forces (IDF) have dramatically intensified preparations to defend the Jewish state against an anticipated “broad military conflict” with Hezbollah in Lebanon, Ynet News reports. Both Hamas and Hezbollah are Shia Islamic jihadist terror organizations supported by Iran which, like them, is sworn to the destruction of Israel.

The Biden administration is working on a historic defense treaty with Saudi Arabia as part of a strategic effort to foster diplomatic ties between Riyadh and Israel, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.

Street evangelist Hans Schmidt, who was shot in the head while preaching in Arizona earlier this month, is showing signs of recovery, the Christian Post reports. A father of two, Schmidt was gunned down while sharing the Gospel on the corner of 51st Avenue and Peoria in Arizona’s Glendale on Nov. 15.

A Christian schoolboy was back with his family in Nigeria on Monday after escaping from Muslim kidnappers who tried to force him to convert to Islam, well-informed Christians said.

Police in India’s Uttar Pradesh state raided a house church last month, arresting the pastor and detaining him for several weeks on suspicion of converting Hindus to Christianity, International Christian Concern (ICC) reports.

A Christian community in Nigeria’s Plateau state remains afraid and on full alert after a teacher with the Church of Christ in All Nations (COCIN) was found beheaded, apparently by jihadist Fulani herdsmen on a farm in Mangu County, International Christian Concern (ICC) reports.

Myanmar continues to be wracked by the latest in a decades-long stream of civil wars, and the country’s Christians are facing a fresh wave of violent persecution from the Buddhist extremist Tatmadaw military dictatorship, International Christian Concern (ICC) reports.